Gold Death's Clutch Hatches

[Jeni]

To call Death proud would be a bit of an understatement.
That would also hold true if you called her obsessive about her clutch.
The Gold hardly ever left the hatching grounds, she stared adoringly at her massive clutch of 37 just about all day long.
She had even asked Z'them and Raiden to paint her clutch so she could have them hang in her weyr.
But, that was just because she wanted to hang stuff in her weyr because she noticed that Sonya's weyr, as well as the other various room throughout Noelan, had beautiful paintings hanging on the walls.
Well, she wanted some too.
And now she had a small collection.

But anyway, Death was currently on the sands watching over her eggs, her two Queen eggs specifically. Sonith was there too, and he nuzzled Death affectionately. He was also very proud of their clutch and spent just as much time around it as Death did.
Cuddling still seemed to be one of their favorite things.

It really was unheard of for a Gold to clutch 37 eggs, Sonya and L'tarel had been mystified when their two dragons had called them down to see once the clutch had been laid. The Bronze and the Gold couldn't have been any happier though. And the weyr did need dragons, as any healthy weyr did. The candidates had been called down to touch the eggs and Death and Sonith watched to make sure no harm would come to the clutch.
The day the clutch was laid Sonya had been surprised for the second time that day. The second reason was the clutch, and the first had been her surprising news and the cause of her illness in the mornings.
She was pregnant.
And, after completely flipping out about whether or not the baby would be alright, seeing as it was L'tarel's baby, her and L'tarel had had a long conversation and had finally calmed down enough to celebrate a bit. Sonya had always wanted a child. Though, she was still worried about the whole thing and prayed every night that the baby would be fine. She also hoped that people wouldn't be awkward around her now that she was carrying her brother's baby. The whole idea still didn't sit to well with the pair of them. But, things were fine.

Now, on this bright fall afternoon, Death's hum began to reverberate through the halls of the weyr, Sonith adding his along with hers as a few of the eggs began rocking gently on the sands.
It was time for the hatching!

Hatched: 37/37
Bloodrose
Brown
Summer
Yellow
Black
Stone
Darkness
Spring
Silver
Spector
Autumn
Frost
Hart
Stream
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Spring
Stone
Gem
Gem
Violet
Red
Coral
Brown
Amber
Iron
Violet
Rain
Storm
Forest
Blue
Summer
Iron
Red
Green
Yellow

Impressed: 33/37
Yellow Murath to Jilath
Black Berrith to V'taph
Stone Siyanath to Illyra
Brown Tilanth to M'har
Frost Scath to Leu
Summer Nedrith to K'che
Violet Haylath to Tristessa
Coral Inaoth to Rin
Autumn Dynaleath to Aine
Brown Vorinth to N'clao
Spring Elyth to Alaricka
Red Zhith to Limire
Amber Cerith to Anali
Iron Perranth to Ar'ane
Forest Touwaroth to M'del
Stream Granesth to Ch'uin
Yellow Grotth to R'hine
Red Sath to Krisaga
Gem Houtheralth to Ulanni
Gem Hatathayth to Maliel
Summer Ambinodeth to O'in
Autumn Eilewth to Ilista
Winter Utith to T'fural
Spring Mirth to Nenle
Bloodrose Aefaeth to Lisirra
Storm Hellioth to R'tai
Darkness Olleth to Z'dol
Blue Taiserouth to N'roy
Iron Cusheth to T'lye
Violet Leaisunth to Anella
Green Hinith to L'sul
Silver Martiath to T'ric
Hart Ranameth to Anali

Betweened: 4/37
Spector
Stone
Rain
Summer[/i]

[Avi]

Anorith had not forgotten her conversation with Calth.
So, now, being totally possessed, she betweened into the Hatching Sands, dumped bowls of paint and glitter over the eggs, and then between out.
The pink and green paints dried qquickly with the heat, preserving the glitter.

Illyra, who had been down in the kitchens experimenting with klah-flavoured chocolate, heard the hum, hide her ingredients and products, and dashed to the Sands.
No one was getting her recipe, least of all her sister! (Who was probably fawning over herself in a mirror somewhere. Vain, preppy thing...)
Smiling and grinning wickedly she bounced onto the Sands with her starch-white robe, looking eagerly at the eggs. And hoping that Vintaph and Jilath both Impressed slugs.

Vintaph, on the other hand, was filled with murderous thoughts.
Like how many omelettes could be made from on of those dragon eggs....

[Jeni]

At first, Death just about wanted to eat Anorith for dumping stuff on her precious eggs.
And she very well could have too.
But, after a moment and after they had dried, she actually thanked the Opal for making her eggs look so pretty and sparkly. She loved them more than ever. Sonith calmed down too once he realized that Death was happy with the paint and glitter.

Death watched as the candidates started to stream in, and she gave a pointed look to Vintaph as she sensed his dangerous thoughts. If he wanted to make omelettes out of her eggs, she would make a steak out of him.

Jilath actually had been in front of a mirror when she heard the humming. She hadn't exactly been admiring herself, but she had been combing her hair. She treasured her long blond tresses dearly. Throwing on the white robe, she bounced/skipped happily and excitedly down to the hatching sands and went to go bug her siblings as usual.
She loved the addition to the eggs.
PRETTYSHINYSPARKLY! AND PINK!

[Fia]

Mahar heard the humming and put down his book, hurrying to change into the Candidate robes and get to the Sands. It didn't take him that long, and he was soon staring around at the oddly colored eggs. Huh? Paint? Glitter? He was surprised, but laughed. The Gold didn't seem to mind.

[Jeni]

As the humming increased a few of the eggs began to rock faster on the hot sands.
One of the Queen eggs began rocking a bit more viloently and in a matter of moments it cracked. It only took another second for the shell to slip completely open and fall, spilling a lovely Bloodrose into the hatching grounds. She immediately got up and looked around at the candidates, looking at each one carefully, deciding which one she wanted to go to. She marched around elegantly, taking her time as she studied all the girls.

As the Bloodrose was searching, another few eggs hatched. A Brown and a Summer hatched at about the same time and both made their way over to sniff around the feet of the males candidates.

[Fia]

Fia and K'rion watched. Beneath and Marinoth hummed.

Oooh, lookie, a Queen!

I see, I see!

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Mahar looked at the three hatchlings. Cool, a Queen hatched first! That was s'posed to be a good sign, right?

He watched the Brown and Summer with considerably more interest, raising his eyebrows and smiling as they sniffed people's feet.

[Megami]

Calth had helped Anorith! The some of the candidate's robes were now dyed with red, blue, green and pink splotches. In Calth's unexpert opinion, they were amazing! No one knew where Calth got hold of dye... or the robes for that matter, but it had been done, and it was probably better not to ask.
((If you want your candidate to have a dyed robe, go ahead. XP -laughs- If Jeni says it's okay, of course))

Leu turned up. She wasn't even wearing a robe, but went to sit in the stands. She was going to make so much fun of all of the small candidates, she didn't even know where to start. Smiling to herself, Leucothea propped her head up on her hands and watched. If someone she'd pinpointed beforehand impressed, she would applaud and yell. It was perfect, as no one but K'lee and Avitona had really seen her. She was going to have a splendid time.

[Jeni]

((Of course it's ok! Jilath loves her pinkly spotted robe! XD))

[Nai-ru]

Three more eggs Hatched all at once: one revealed a Yellow, one a Black, and one a Stone. The Yellow was male and the Black female- the Stone, strangely, was female.

None of the three hesitated.

The Yellow moped on over to Jilath, crooning halfheartedly and with a good amount of gloom. Hullo, he said sulkily. 'm Murath. That was it. No 'I'm hungry,' no 'mine,' just hello and a name. Murath was a creature of few words and a lot of moping.

Screaming with excitement, the Black skittered over to Vintaph and tackleglomped him- there was no other word for it. It was undoubtedly a tackleglomp. MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~![/b] she squealed in an annoyingly cutesy, high-pitched voice. BABADABABADABABADA...![/b] She wasn't actually saying 'babadababadababada,' but whatever she was saying was said so fast and so shrilly that that was what it sounded like. FLEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP BERRITH KEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~![/b] To all appearances, her name was Berrith, though it was hard to tell.

The Stone, obviously skittish, gave Berrith a wide berth and ran to hide behind Illyra. M-m-mine, she squeaked. Siyanath is f-frightened. Sister s-seems nice, and I'm s-sure that everyone is very n-nice, and I like everybody, b-but th-they are scary-y.

Oh dear lord.

((There ya go, darlin's.))

[Jeni]

Jilath stared at the Yellow.
And continued to stare.
"You are not pink."
Pause.
"Or very cheerful."
Another pause.
"But you are bright and yellow and adorable!"
Glomp.
Yellow was Jilath's third favorite color.
And now poor Murath would be subjected to the insanely hyper and cheerful Jilath as she glomped him and tried to get him to lighten up for the rest of eternity.

~

Another couple of eggs hatched once the three impressions had been made.
A Darkness hatched and started to make his way over to the males. But before he could get there an egg in his path burst open and a small Spring spilled out. She immediately went to go play with her higher ranked brother. She tackled him and the two ended up rolling playfully across the sands.
While this was going on, a Silver hatched. He calmly regarded his more playful siblings and gave them a reproving look before going to inspect the candidates.

[Megami]

Leu allowed herself another small evil smile. Things seemed to be so much more lively now. She was going to have to pester K'lee and ask Avitona about what had been going on.
Oh, she knew the big things, but it was the tiny, microscopical details -not that Leu knew the word microscopical, because nothing like that exists on Pern- that Leucothea was interested in.
Because with that information she could rule all of Pern.
Quite literally.
She'd do it too.
Beware.

[Fia]

Mahar watched with interest as six more dragonets hatched. Okay, three Impressed... oh well, there were still four dragonets that might pick him! The Darkness, the Summer, the Brown, and the Silver. And twenty-eight unhatched eggs! There was hope yet! The boy stifled a laugh at his own dramatic thought.

[Jeni]

The next few things happened in a fairly quick procession.
A Spector hatched, but it only took him a second to look around the candidates and then give a mournful and pitiful cry of pain before winkingbetween. The dragons issued a death keen for the Spector and Death looked sadly at his egg once her keen died down. Her hum picked up again as another egg hatched, revealing a bright Autumn dragoness.
The Brown dragon on the sands made up his mind and sat at Mahar's feet.
M'har, your Tilanth is hungry. He told His, conveying a strong sense of hunger to the boy as he looked up at him expectantly.

Then as Sonya happily watched the impressions and hatchings, she was suddenly hit with another vision from Death.
It took her by surprise, much like the last time, and she felt faint.
All she could see was some strange sparkly and shiny objects.
She couldn't tell where they were, or even what they were. It was a completely mystery.
And, like last time, she barely had time to register it before it disappeared and was gone.
She opened her eyes and found herself staring at L'tarel, realizing she was leaning heavily on him. He looked worried.
"Sonya? Are you alright?" He asked worriedly, carefully setting her back up straight on her feet. He studied her for a moment, probably wondering if she would fall over again.
"Y..yeah. I'm fine. I think. I just felt a bit faint, and then had another weird vision." She responded, shaking her head. She then told him about it and neither of them had any clue as to what it meant, and they still didn't know why she was seeing these visions in the first place.

[Nai-ru]

MEANWHILE, IN THEO-LAND!!!!!!!

Theo, who was still stuck far away, had decided to see how long she could stand on her head before passing out or falling asleep.
She was now up to seventeen hours.
She was about to be bored.
And... Lykath was sunning herself. For possibly being about to die a painful death, neither of them seemed very concerned.[/color]

[Jeni]

((*laughs* Theo-Land!
Wait till they figure out the hatching is going on and Death laid 37 eggs..))